Gaffel traces back to 1908, when the Becker brothers took over an inn and brewhouse at Eigelstein 41 in Cologne and named it after the Gaffeln, the medieval associations of guilds and merchants that once governed the city. As more innkeepers gave up brewing and poured Gaffel instead, the house brewery grew into a mid-sized family company. The range centres on top-fermented Kölsch made under the Kölsch Konvention with soft water from the brewery's own well in the Wahner Heide; a pilot brewery develops specialities such as the Fastenbier.
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Drawn from all 5 beers in the catalogue.
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Everything sits in one family — which makes the comparison below the interesting part. It isn't what they brew that sets them apart, but how.
Their beers place in the Top 38% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
Gaffel traces back to 1908, when the Becker brothers took over an inn and brewhouse at Eigelstein 41 in Cologne and named it after the Gaffeln, the medieval associations of guilds and merchants that once governed the city. As more innkeepers gave up brewing and poured Gaffel instead, the house brewery grew into a mid-sized family company. The range centres on top-fermented Kölsch made under the Kölsch Konvention with soft water from the brewery's own well in the Wahner Heide; a pilot brewery develops specialities such as the Fastenbier.
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